Fascinating if unsurprising example of how the Browns’ web site reflects a rapid response PR war room mentality: Let’s start with some reportage from the Canton Repository’s Steve Doerschuk on Tuesday: Tight end Steve Heiden, a co-captain who came to the team in 2001, let out the most provocative player observation of the Monday after. […]
When you’ve been blogging for nearly five years, there may come a time when it turns out that you were actually right about something. Back on draft day, right after the Joe Thomas pick, I posted an item entitled “Round One Goes to Charlie,” in which I quoted Phil Savage’s previous votes of confidence in […]
If not for a systematic bias by the NFL schedule-maker, the odds that the Browns would start the regular season at home for each of the nine years of the expansion era are one in 512, or 0.2%. The weather is one obvious explanation. Looking at the final four regular season games of the year, […]
Here’s an update to the projected roster I posted at the outset of training camp. Bold and strikethrough type indicate changes from the pre-camp view. This provides a quick glance at the impact that training camp had on Browns personnel, compared to the conventional wisdom as I saw it then. QBStarter: Charlie Frye Backups: Brady […]
In the wake of the Mike Vick episode, the NFL is kicking off a new series of image ads showing the human side of its players, “to do everything necessary to protect the strength of our brand.” Touching sentiment, no? So which team’s players do they feature on literally half of these 30-second, black-and-white spots? […]
What’s a blogger fan to do when the defensive line is even more of a liability than the much-discussed quarterback position? I actually hold out more hope for injured Orpheus Roye than I do for Mt. Washington, the oldest and heaviest defender in Browns history. The newcomer Smiths might be halfway solid, but looking at […]
‘Twas an interesting, enigmatic choice by Romeo to bench Wheelie at the outset of Saturday’s exhibition at Denver. One Watercooler poster heard radio analyst Doug Dieken say that “Crennel is disciplining Winslow for mental mistakes last week.” Beat writer Jeff Schudel reports thusly: The easy conclusion is Winslow was being punished for some rule infraction, […]
We all know how the Browns underplay and underreport injuries. Do I really need to review the litany of disappointing news and miscommunications? Well, perhaps I’m sensitized to this issue because I recently wrote an article (to appear in the October OBR magazine) detailing the Browns’ history with staph infections, but witness this news from […]
According to the ratings system devised over at the P-F-R blog, the 1984 Browns rank first among all teams since 1970 in the inequality of their offense and defense, among teams with better defenses than offenses. In other words, no team since the merger had a better defense compared to their offense — or, more […]
It’s mid-August, and the familiar dropping of flies has hit Berea. Tweaks, dings, bumps: the shorthand euphemisms for sprains, tears, soft tissue damage, concussions, and the like. Most noteworthy this week is the attrition in the linebacking corps. When the Official $ite features Chaun Thompson, the all-but-forgotten Butch-era reach now entering the last year of […]
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